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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

• Ivor Gurney

  Song And Pain read by Bill Paterson

• 00:00

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  St Matthew Passion: Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen (opening chorus)

  Performers: The Monteverdi Choir, The London Oratory Junior Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

  • Bach – Sacred Choral Works.
  • Archiv 469 769-2.

• Bible (King James version)

  St Mark’s Gospel, Chapter 10 vv 46-52 read by Bill Paterson

• 00:07

  Dave Brubeck

  Unsquare Dance

  Performers: Dave Brubeck (piano), Joe Morello (drums), Eugene Wright (bass)

  • CBS CDCBS 32046.

• Edgar Albert Guest

  The Bumps and Bruises Doctor read by Celia Imrie

• 00:09

  Aaron Copland

  Appalachian Spring Suite: Allegro (extract)

  Performers: Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati (conductor)

  • Mercury 434 301-2.

• Louise M Alcott

  Hospital Sketches (extract) read by Celia Imrie

• 00:11

  John Adams

  The Wound-Dresser (extract)

  Performers: Christopher Maltman (baritone), ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, John Adams (conductor)

  • Late Junction ´óÏó´«Ã½LJ30012.
• 00:13

  Robert Ramsey

  How are the Mighty Fallen

  Performers: Cambridge Taverner Choir, Owen Rees (conductor)

  • What is our life?.
  • Herald HAVPCD 187.

• Philip Larkin

  Ambulances read by Bill Paterson

• 00:20

  Sting

  Fragile

  • Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-94 (originally from Nothing like the sun).
  • A&M Records 540 307 2.

• HG Wells

  Under the Knife (extract) read by Bill Paterson

• 00:24

  Astor Piazzolla

  Celos

  Arranger: Carel Kraayenhof Performers: Gidon Kremer (violin), Michel Portal (clarinet), Per Arne Glorvigen (bandoneón), Vadim Sakharov (piano), Alois Posch (double bass)

  • Hommage à Piazzolla.
  • Nonesuch 7559-79407-2.

• Florence Nightingale

  NOTES ON NURSING: What it is, and what it is not (extract) read by Celia Imrie

• 00:29

  Eric Rogers

  Carry on Doctor/Doctor Again Suite: New Nurse in Town – or is she?

  Arranger: Gavin Sutherland Performers: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

  • The Carry On Album.
  • ASV CD WHL 2119.

• Richard Gordon

  Doctor in the House (extract) read by Bill Paterson

• Caroline Anderson

  The Rebel of Penhally Bay (extract) (Mills and Boon, Medical) read by Celia Imrie

• 00:33

  Sergey Rachmaninov

  Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18: Mvt II Adagio Sostenuto (extract)

  Performers: Yefim Bronfman (piano), The Philharmonia, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

  • Sony SK 47183.

• Dorothy Parker

  The False Friends read by Celia Imrie

• 00:35

  Franz Schubert

  Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the spinning-wheel) D118

  Performers: Karita Mattila (soprano), Ilmo Ranta (piano)

  • Wild Rose.
  • Ondine ODE 897-2.
• 00:38

  Don Pullen

  Pain Inside (extract)

  Performer: Don Pullen (piano)

  • Healing Force.
  • Black Saint 1200102.

• Anne Sexton

  Lullaby read by Celia Imrie

• 00:40

  KD Lang/Ben Mink

  The Mind of Love

  Performers: k.d. Lang (vocals), Ben Mink (guitars, violin, viola, beat box), Teddy Borowiecki (piano), David Pitch (electric bass), Graham Boyle (percussion), Greg Leisz (steel guitar)

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  • Sire/Warner Brothers. 7599-26840-2.

• Anne Reeve Aldrich

  A Nineteenth-Century Remedy read by Celia Imrie

• Elizabeth Akers Allen

  Nature's Healers read by Bill Paterson

• 00:46

  Malcolm Arnold

  Four Scottish Dances: Allegretto

  Performers: The Philharmonia, Bryden Thomson (conductor)

  • Arnold: Dances.
  • CHAN 8867.

• D.H. Lawrence

  A Baby Asleep After Pain read by Bill Paterson

• 00:49

  Manuel de Falla

  Nana

  Performers: Measha Brueggergosman (soprano), Justus Zeyen (piano)

  • Night and Dreams.
  • DG 477 8101.

• James Weldon Johnson

  Sleep read by Bill Paterson

• 00:51

  Higginbotham/Drake/Fisher

  Good Morning Heartache

  Performer: Billie Holiday

  • Billie Holiday – The Essential Recordings.
  • Music Club MCCD 095.
• 00:54

  Maurice Duruflé

  Requiem: In Paradisum

  Performers: The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Iain Simcock (organ), James O’Donnell (The Master of Music)

  • Hyperion CDA66757.

• Bible (King James version)

  St John’s Gospel Chapter 11 vv 37-46 read by Bill Paterson

• Carol Ann Duffy

  Mrs Lazarus read by Celia Imrie

• 01:00

  Carlo Gesualdo

  In Monte Oliveti (On Mount Olivet)

  Performers: The King’s Singers

  • Tenebrae Repsonses for Maundy Thursday.
  • Signum SIGCD048.

• Robert Burns

  A Prayer in the Prospect of Death read by Bill Paterson

• 01:05

  Mokale Koapeng /Roderick Williams

  Khutšo (chant for peace)

  Performers: I Fagionlini, The SDASA Chorale, Mokale Koapeng (piano)

  • Simunye.
  • Detour 0630-18837-2.

• Nelson Mandela

  The Long walk to Freedom (extract) read by Bill Paterson

• Archive Recording

  Litany of Reconciliation (Coventry Cathedral)

• 01:10

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Mass in B minor BWV 232: Dona Nobis Pacem

  Performers: The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

  • Bach – Sacred Choral Works.
  • Archiv 469 769-2.